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| Columbus sailed west to... | find a shorter route to the West Indies |
| Columbus made more voyages to the West Indies to... | start a Spanish colony, take Spaniards there, and to bring home the riches found in the Indies. |
| Moving people and their customs between Eastern and Western Hemispheres | Columbian Exchange |
| The Columbian Exchange brought... | horses to the Americas and corn & potatoes to Europe. It also brought European diseases to many Indians who died as a result. |
| Columbus' voyages showed... | the people of Europe how to get to America. |
| Cortes defeated the Aztecs because of these items. | metal armor, horses, muskets, and tribes who were willing to fight against the Aztecs. |
| Conquered the Inca Indians | Pizarro |
| The colony was created after the fall of the Inca empire. | Peru |
| The first event in Spain's search for gold. | Cabeza de Vaca traveled the southwestern part of America. |
| After Esteban died, what happened in New Mexico... | Coronado picked up his search for Cibola. |
| New Spain's groups in order from most to least powerful | peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, Africans, Indians. |
| In New Spain's colony, Creoles were more powerful than... | mestizos, Africans, & Indians |
| Indians in New Spain's colony were more powerful than... | no one |
| Indians living on an encomienda were expected to... | work without pay and become Christians |
| The Spanish wanted slaves because | they could make the landowners wealthy. |
| Las Casa wanted... | all slavery to end. |
| Allies helped Cortes conquer the Aztecs by... | providing translators, giving directions, and finding food and shelter for the conquistadors. |
| The Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan, is today's... | Mexico City |
| In New Spain, peninsulares were considered greater than Indians and Africans because... | this group had Spanish blood. |
| Spain became the richest country in the world in the 1600s because... | they set up colonies in the New World and made money off the plantations and mines located there. |
